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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-05
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MAINE. CENTRAL RAILROAD,
Advancement Of Trains in Effect
June ~, 1887.
Until further notice trains leave Augusta as follows

Until further notice trains leave Augusta as follows
ington, Rockiand, Portland and Boston; sos A. III
for Hallowe aud Gardiner; 1000 A. NJ. for Bruins
wick, Portland and all intermediate points, lo3o A
NJ. (express) for Lewiston, Pennington, Rockiand.
Portland at HaNowell, Gardiner, Brunswick and
Westbrook Junct only; .52 P. M. for Hallowell and
Gardiner; sos p. M (accommodation) for Bruins
wick and all stations between Augusta and Bruins
wick and brunswick and Portland; $50 L. NJ eek
pressl for Brunswick. Bath, Lewiston, Portland and
Boston, and on Saturdays for Rockland; $50 L. Nj.
for Hallowell and Gardiner ii p NJ might Pullman)
for lewiston Portland and Boston, and for Bath Sat
urdays only.
Going East-2.2o A. NJ. might express) for
Skowhegan, Dexter, Belfast, Bangor, Bar Harbor,
ST. stephen, ST. John and Aroostook Co.; 9US A. Nj.
for atervile. Skowhegan, Bangor and Greenville
2.43 P. NJ lexpress) for Bangor, Ellsworth, Bar Har-
Dor, stopping between Augusta and Bangor at Wa
terviIle only; 1882 z. NJ. (accommedaton) for Show
hegan Belfast, Dexter Bangor, st. stephen, ST. John
and Aroostook Co.; 7.40 p. NJ. for Waterville.
The Boston and Mt. Desert, limited, passes Angus
ia at l.52 T. NJ but does not stop.
The Night Pullman Trains run each way every night,
Sundays included, but not TO Skowhegan, on Monday
mornings, or to Belfast and Dexter, or beyond Ban
gor, excepting to Bar Harbor, on Sunday mornings
AccommedatIor Train leav9s Sa!d Hs
lowell at 7S2 A. NJ, 80 md 500 Z. NJ.
1910 p. NJ; for Waterville and Vanceboro, 1885 r.
NJ and $50 p. NJ; due from Boston. ~ As and ABS p
NJ; due from Vanceboro and Waterville, 7.25 A. Nj.
and l2.2S L. NJ.
Through tickets to California and all points South
and West may be had OF f. ID. walker, ticket ageuI,
Augusta, the only office selling via all routes snc
checking baggage free OF expense,
PAYSON TUCKER, Genr Manager.
+. E. BOOTHBY, GenI Pass. and Ticket Ag't.
Portland, June %. 1857.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-05

containing infor-
nation OF very
great value. Ev-
erybody g b ould
have this book
and tho Sc who
send for it will
ever after thank
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-05
MISS A. C. M0ReAWS SCHOOL

FOR YOUNG LADIES, PORTSMOUTH, N. H..
reopens Sept. 18th, 1882. ]. G. Whittier says, "a
could scarcely be found In New England"
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-05
NOT KINGS EVIL
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Blu, the King of Evils. You suffer so. You are not
downright sick, but yeu wish YOU were dead. Your
stomach is out of order Your brain reels. Your
ewes grow dim and hazy, and You are in such pain.
Oil torment You can't use a knife TO cut il out,
but you can eradicate the pain, reuovate the stom
ach and relieve the pressure on the brain. How +?
Get box of D. ks. which mean
DR.. Mark r. Woodbury's Dyspepsia Killers.
Eat two or three of those little lozenges and yen
will be better at once. Use them as preventive
and you need suffer no more.
REMEMBER d. KS.
They cost only soc. box (tral boxes 25o), can be
to any part of the T. 5. by mail, and will cure
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn and
all Stomach Troubles.
Doolttle & Smith. - and % fremont ST., Boston.
are selling agents.
DIR. Mark X. woodbury's Dyspepsia Killers,
DIR. Mark Z. Woodbury. DvsnAns:a Killers.
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No internal or external pain can exist
WHERE MlNArD'S LlNIMENT :, rs,

Whatever the cause. be II BURN or BRUISE.
STRAIN or SPRAIN, CUT or SCALD; Be the suf
iering from Centractions or Swellings, Gripes or
Cramps, in man or beast, this KING OF 2 AIN al
ways cures. YACHTSMEN and HORSEMEN, re-
member the name: MINARD'S LINIMENT.
Large Bottles only Is cents. Sold by all druggists
Prepared by NELSON d CO.. Boston, Mass.
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16
SHOT UPON HIS COFFIN.
THE WORK OF COURTS.MARTIAI.
IN THE ARMY.
"Reminiscences Of the Execution of
Dixon, the Deserter, in Front
of Petersburg in 1864.

Looking over my diary find this entry,
day. Attended execution of Dixon, de-
serter." This was the case to which have
previously alluded. One day there was
brought before the Court a well-built,
bright-appearing, good-looking soldier, ap-
parently about twenty-five years of age,
charged with desertion. The evidence was
as follows: His regiment, which was sta
toned below Petersburg, had been sent out
on picket. In the night, which was very
dark, he was posted as a vedette at tree
some distance in advance of the main
picket line. Some time in the night he
left his gun standing against the tree, ran
and jumped into rifle-pit in which were
Sergeant and half dozen men. well, I've
deserted EN-" he exclaimed. Deserted
whom ?" asked the Sergeant. The
damned Yanks,r he replied. What did
you desert them for ?'' was the next cues
ton. Because they didn't use me
right" he said. The Sergeant then asked
him his name, company, and regiment,
which he gave. His regiment was the
First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. As
soon as he had obtained this information
the Sergeant said TO him We are Yanks.
and you will go back to division headquar-
tiers with me.n He took two soldiers. es-
corted him back, and delivered him up 10
the Provost Marshal. AT the point where
he had been stationed our picket line made
quite curve, and in the darkness of the
night and his own excitement the fellow
had taken the wrong direction, and instead
OF reaching the rebel line. had jumped into
rifie-pit of the Tenth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment of his own brigade At his trial,
which took place few days after, when
asked what he had to say in his defense. he
had nothing to say, except that he had been
a soldier in the British army, and showed
to the Court an honorable discharge. This,
however. instead of helping his case, had
the opposite effect, for it proved that he
must have known the consequences of his
attempt if he failed. 1t was but a short
time before the findings and sentence of the
Court were approved, and execution of the
sentence ordered. A military execution is
a solemn event, and nothing is omitted
which can add to its impressiyeness. Ev-
cry man and every officer in the division
who is not engaged in necessary duty as
guard or picket is obliged to be present. On
this occasion the three brigades, forming
our division. were drawn up in double line,
facing each other, at distance of about
twenty PAGES, and forming three sides of two
squares, as in the diagram:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16

Emile Julliard in his article on Life
Beneath the Crescent" in the April Cosnlo-
potitdn, says If a Turk dies, or looks as if
he were dead, no physician, no inspector
comes TO make sure that death has really
taken place; but if it has not the fact will
soon be established, thanks to a procedure
more efficient than all the gentle and re-
fined means in vogue in the West to make
sure that the deceased is not hoaxing his
heirs.
Scarcely has the last breath been taken
when the corpse is lifted up violently by
vigorous arms, the clothing snatched off,
laid on the fiag-stones of the mortuary
chamber or vestibule, and besprinkled with
hot water. which is thrown upon ii by the
imam. provided with large pail. The
sprinkling is repeated two or three times,
so that the family runs little danger of see
ing the deceased resuscitated.
Thus scalded as a preliminary step, the
body is washed and dried. Then it is be-
powdered with camphor, and after being
covered with cloth embroidered with
verses from the Koran, it is exposed for
several hours in the courtyard. Afterwards
the imam returns, and accompanies the
corpse to its last resting-place.
The fiat, covered bier is usually carried
on the shoulders OF friends of the deceased.
or upon those of hired pal bearers. Some
times strangers assume this duty gratui-
tously, looking upon it as a pious and
meriIorious act. The cortege is made I'D
only of those that carry the coffin by
turns, thus relieving one another without
stopping. The coffin is made of cedar
and it is seldom vanished but it is Gov
erek with a rug or shawl, and there is
placed at the head a turban or fez. if the
deceased is a male.
The procession always moves hastily.
not for the purpose Of getting rid of the
dismal burden, but TO hasten the moment
when the deceased shall enjoy eternal re-
pose; for the Mussulman believes that the
soul is restless and unhappy as long as the
corpse is unburied. This is why three or
four hours only elapse between death and
burial.
On arriving at the cemetery, the imam so
places the bier that the face of the deceased
is turned toward Mecca: be then ap-
breaches the brink of the grave and utters
very long prayer, the conclusion of which
is as follows: Draw near, Nounkir
and Nekir, angels of death and ministers
of Allah. Great and blessed God, we
humbly beseech Thee to make the earth
light for Thy servant. May we find grace
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16
Dancing as a Means of Grace,

Two gentlemen, Colonel Codell and Mr..
Portur, says the Calcutta Pioneer, have long
been making heroic but Intellectual efforts
to establish friendly relations with the wild
inhabitants of Little Andaman Islands.
The inhabitants have always been in the
habit of promptly going for any stranger
who was rash enough to land on their
shores. At the beginning of last year these
gentlemen had reason to think that the
sayages were showing less hostile feeling.
Consequently they visited the island, and
the natives came to the beach without their
bows and arrows
The Colonel landed and after an ex-
change of presents, he proceeded to instruct
the Jarawas in the sublime mysteries of Sir
Roger de Coverley and the Highland Fling.
They were so enchanted and bewildered by
these delightful novelties that they at once
entered into an alliance with their in
suuctor, and became SO amiable that he
was able to travel several miles inland
without the slightest molestation.
1t such results can be achieved with the
two dances named, what might not be ac-
complished in the way of civilization with
the waltz. Missionaries may refuse to
learn and imperil their own souls for the
sake of saving those of their savage
brethren. But in that case a splendid
opening presents ltselI IOr the young man
who finds all professions crowded. Lon
don is greatly over mastered" but
Washers could find new career in those
gentle chimes, with no expense for an out
fit. They need carry no luggage, as no
evening dress would be required beyond a
collar and a pair of pumps The mental
picture OF masher conducting Jarawa
dowager to the refreshment tent, between
dances, to recruit on picked missionary
and mangoes, is touching in the extreme.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16
BY Gentle Means.

There were some fertile and excellent
lands which, in 1898, Penn ascertained
were excluded from his first purchase, and.
as he was very DESTROYS of obtaining them.
he made the proposal to the Indians that
be would buy those lands if they wished to
sell them.
AT first they refused, but finally, to please
their Father Onss," as they called Penn,
they said that he should have as much
land as young man could travel round in
one d Y, and, as an equivalent, they should
receive certain amount of English goods.
Though this plan of measuring the land
was of their own selection. yet they were
greatly dissatisfied with it after it had been
tried, Tor the young man chosen to walk on
the tract of land walked so fast and far as
greatly to astonish them.
The Governor observed this dissatisfac-
ton, and asked the cause.
" The walker cheated MS" said the In
dams.
" All, how can that be?1 asked Penn.
Did you not choose yourselves to have
the land measured in this way?"
True. replied the Indians but white
brother make a big walk
Some of PENIS commissioners. waxing
warm, said the bargain was a fair one, and
insisted that the Indians ought to abide bv
it; and if not, should be compelled to.
" Compelled y exclaimed Penn, chow
can you compel them without bloodshed?
Don't you see this looks to murder p
Then, turning with benignant smile to
the Indians, he said: We'll, brothers, if
you have given US too much land for the
goods first agreed on, how much more will
satisfy your"
The proposal gratifed them, and they
mentioned the quantity of cloth and the
number of fish hooks with which they
would be satisfied
These were cheerfuily given, and the In
diaGs, shaking hands with Penn, went
away smiling Youths Companion.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16
Unnatural Tendency of the Times.

Let not our virtuous young girls rush
into the arms of dissolute or dissipated
young men without the warning of reason
and of experience. Let them be taught 10
recognize such characters at sight, and to
loathe them as they deserve. Then we
should hear less of innocent girls being
offered up to the unworthy. and nothing OF
young girls marrying impure young men
with the thought of reforming them.
Young men are not encouraged to take
that class of women as hopeful subjects for
reformation; no more should pure young
girls be allowed to so pollute themselves.
Let like consort with like, and if a young
man wants a spotless bride let him keep
himself spotless for her sake And let not
young men too long delay their marriage
because they are poor. of this comes
largely the vicious system of France and
the growing celibacy in England. The
sexes are said to be growing away from
each other in these countries-to have few
interests in common, no society. so to
speak, the men avoiding intercourse with
their equals and seeking only low grade
of female society, and The women more and
more obliged TO devise and to carry out
their own separate schemes of amusement.
This has also begun TO be noticed in our
fashionable society, and Jenny June ac-
counts Tor the rage for afternoon recep-
tons by saying that the ladies cannot at
tend evening gatherings as it is impossible
to secure escorts. Late accounts of fash,
ionable assemblies in Boston, where the
young men are mostly Harvard students
describe the young men as budding to-
gether and not trying in any manner TO
entertain the ladies, and as appearing ex-
cessively bored with the whole thing All
this is unnatural and shows vicious tend
eDcy of the times Nnunp men would do
light in the society of their own social or
der and be as pleased with youth and
beauty now as they have always been if
they kept themselves fresh and pure for
the society of their equals 1t is because
they indulge in a too free and easy inter-
course with their interiors that the dignity
and restraints required ofthem in good So
ciety are so lrksome.-Hauie Ting Girls
poid ia Chicago Tribune.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16
To Remove Dandrun.

Take piece of gum camphor as large as
a chestnut and place in il one pint of alco-
hol. This camphorizes the alcohol. The
mixture may be perfumed to suit the taste.
Wet the scaip with this daily 1t will slim
ulate the scalp, promote the growth of the
hair, and in many instances prevent it
from falling off. German women are noted
for their luxuriant hair. Once in every
two weeks they wash the head thoroughly
with quart of soft water in which hand
full of bran and little white soap had been
dissolved, then the yolk of an egg, slightly
beaten, is rubbed into the roots of the hair /:
this is allowed to remain a few minutes,
and then the hair is washed and rinsed
carefully in soft water. 1t is then wiped
and dried thoroughly, combed from the
forehead and parted with the fingers. At
ter drying apply little pomatum made of
beef marrow boiled in small quantity of
olive oil and slightly perfumed. Do this
near the hire in winter or in very warm
room. Almost all curling fluids are mere
impositions; but with weak solution of
isinglass firm and lasting form may be
given TO the hair This solution is molten
sive. The hair should be brushed every
day in order to keep it in perfect condition
Always use the best brushes. They are the
cheapest in the end. Use the brush very
rapidly and tor about five minutes A cell
ebrated beauty said the hair should receive
one hundred strokes day, and they should
be applied in three minutes time. A good
and the safest wash for the teeth is pure
soft water and the finest quality of CASTLE
soap. Apply with moderately stiff brush
morning and evening. The above receipts
are worthy of trial, especially for those
who desire beautiful hair.-Erctange.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16
Moman,s Ambition and putiss-

Everywhere the great advance and in
tellectual growth among women is aston
ishing. Except those who devote their
time and energies to society and its frlvoli-
ties, women generally are working like
Trojans TO elevate the sex and equalize the
sexes. In the intellectual world they are
certaifly on equal footing with men. Nor
do men dispute their claim.
In all good work for the moral and phys
zeal improvement Of the race the women
are the most interested and work the hard
est, and, what is better still, are always
ready to supply the necessary funds or see
that they are supplied.
In domestic affairs women have always
reigned supreme. and yet it must be con-
fessed that here they do their poorest work
in certain ways. Upon them rests the re-
sponsibility of bringing up and training
the future generations of men and women.
And still, as a class, they work harder to
save young men from ruin than they
worked to train their own sons into habits
that should require no reformation in man.
hood. Half the time and labor spent upon
their own children. they agreeing as body
upon a line of moral conduct and teaching,
would make the after labor comparatively
light, for nothing SO influences character as
early surroundings, although, of course,
the argument holds that excellent men
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16
Consumption Cured by a Car Platform

you see this car PLATFORM" inquired one
passenger of another on an Illinois Central
suburban train. Well, that platform
cured me of consumption and saved my
life. You think that's strange. don't you +?
Well, it is a little strange, but it's fact.
1ou see, | come of a consumptive family,
My mother died of consumption, q sister
and two brothers, and year ago | eX-
pected to go in the same way. Don't look
like it now, do l? Well, all thanks are
due to this platform. 1t was in this wav /:
As soon as | saw that | was going down !
made up my mind to take some desperate
means of salvation. l wasn't financially
able to go TO California. or to travel any
where except to and from my work. So
did the next best thing. Every morning.
in riding into town, | stood out on the
platform, and, drawing long breaths, filed
my lungs full of the fresh air from the
lake.
At first couldn't inhale much but BY
and by my lungs gathered strength, respira-
tory cells that had been long unused began
to open and admit natures life-giving oxy-
gen. and in few months l was surprised
at my own strength and good health. as
were my friends. Four times a day-for |
rode home to dinner and back again.
stood on the platform and inhaled as much
of the air as possible. The weather made
no difference to me-rain, cold, snow, biz
zard-for more than a year l haven't sat
down in railway coach. Now / can draw
longer inhalation than any man know,
and long inhalation simply means filling
with air all the cells of the lungs, bringing
the whole system into service, as it were
and | have no more fear of consumption.
People who work indoors, and who never,
under ordinary circumstances, get their
lungs more than half filled with air had
better try my prescription. 1t is wonder"
Chicago Herald
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16


THE POLE AND It's ToRCH-When To-
Gated by Sir James Ross, in 1881, the north
magnetic pole was on the west side of the
peninsula of Boothia Felix, some 400
miles nearer to us than the geographical
pole or earth's axis. Since then, however
its position must have changed some hun
dreds of miles, as, from some unknown
cause, 1t is no; stationary but is moving
westward at a rate which takes it around
the earth on particular parallel in 200
to 1000 years. The needle of the compass
now points due north on a meridian pass
ing through western Dakota or eastern
Montana, and turns to about northwest in
England, though at the time the mariners
compass was brought from China the nee
die pointed nearly north from England
The aurora borealis, like other magnetic
phenomena, follows the same westward
course in its given latitude, and is mani
tested to a certain distance from the mag
netic pole. 1t does not reach Pekin, on
the opposite side of the earth from US,
though the display is often very brilliant
at Philadelphia in about the same latitude;
but as the magnetic pole passes onward
the aurora will be seen further south in the
opposite hemisphere, and further north in
this, thus favoring each northern country
in turn with its beautiful effects.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16
About "A Lucky Star,

The " Brandenburg Lucky Star - so
called because it appeared the night in
which Elector Johann Sigismund, of Bran
denburg, was born-is, by German astron-
omers, expected to make its appearance
again within the next four years. In 945.
during the reign of Emperor Ohio l.. saw
the German papers, new and brilliant
fixed star was seen in the constellation
Cassiopeia, which has the shape of w.
In 1864 similar star was seen in the same
place, and again on November IL, 1872.
when Tycho Brahe noticed brilliant star
OF unusual magnitude in spot where he
had only seen small ones until then. 1t
had no tail, nor was it surrounded bv a
haze, that might lead observers 10 take il
tor comet; it reseinbled on the contrary.
the other fixed stars, and shed more brill
liant light than the stars of the first magni-
tude, excelling in this respect Sirius, Jupi-
per and Vega. 1t could only be compared
to Venus, and was visible also in the day.
time, even at noon. At night, with a COW
cred sky, while all the other stars are invis-
lble, 1t was repeatedly distinguishable
through the clouds. Tycho was convinced
OF its complete Immortality Its light be-
gan to fade in November, 1872, and after
having shone for nearly seventeen months
it disappeared entirely in 1874. In vain
the astronomers have looked for it in its
wonted place since; but now, after the
usual period of about 500 years, it is ex-
pected to show itself again. -Egchan0e.